KS3, KS4, Unseen Poetry, GCSE English Lit, Shakespeare, Sonnet 50, PEE, reading, analysis, journeys

Planned for my year 9 class as part of a unit of work on Journeys, introducing the skills and tasks of English GCSE, I have also used this with a year 10 group as we begin to tackle the unseen poetry question for English Literature. It uses Shakespeare’s sonnet 50 and is an opportunity to explore the sonnet form as well as the poet’s use of language and structural features.